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Our readers probably know this story by heart: An illegal alien from Stamford, Melissa Esperanza Ramirez-Romero, is charged in the July 13 fatal DUI crash that killed Bridgeport Officer Cooper Whiteside and mother-of-three Brittany Islami. Danbury police put a New Britain driver’s license number and address into the sworn arrest warrant. That official document—not some random Facebook post—created the initial confusion with a U.S. citizen named Melissa Ramirez who shares the same July 4, 1999 birthday and is a registered voter in New Britain.
Thomas and Governor Lamont immediately framed the story as reckless conservative “misinformation” that put an innocent woman in mortal danger. They lectured the public about verifying facts while the government’s own warrant was the source of the mix-up. They never fully explained how various databases merged the records, as was claimed in court by the state's attorney.
Then the New Britain police did what Democratic officials would not: they conducted a welfare check. The woman told officers she was not receiving death threats, said she felt safe, and complained mainly about the media calling her. Journalist Dan Haar, who had spoken with her earlier, confirmed to police that she never described death threats.
That means the “New Britain Ramirez getting threats” narrative that Thomas and Lamont made the emotional centerpiece of their response was not corroborated by the woman herself, nor by the police report.
House Republican Leader Vincent Candelora pointed this out in a letter.
Thomas’s response?
She sent a campaign email today that doubles down, displays screenshots of ugly online comments which appear aimed entirely at the actual defendant who is incarcerated, claims pictures of the “wrong” Melissa were circulating online—and if anyone has seen these pictures, definitely send them to the Centinal—then directly blames Danbury Police for the initial error, and quickly pivots to fundraising for lawn signs.
"This is the rhetoric misinformation produces," Thomas writes. "Comments like these left publicly on posts online. Real threats, aimed at real people."
An innocent citizen’s safety was weaponized as a political club. When the facts undercut the club, the club was simply dusted off and used again in Thomas’s claim that “an innocent woman still isn’t safe”—but this time with a donation link attached.
Connecticut residents can draw their own conclusions, indeed.
A Secretary of the State whose office is responsible for the integrity of elections chose to amplify an unsubstantiated threat narrative, attack those who asked legitimate questions about a faulty warrant, and then monetize the entire episode for reelection—and that wasn’t the only scandal to hit her office this week!
“People over politics,” she writes.
Yet her own email provides the direct evidence to the contrary, fundraising off conflated stories, lies, and a horrible tragedy that should never have happened if federal immigration laws were enforced in the state of Connecticut.
Let's move onward, but toward actual accountability.
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